Saturday's broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera is an archive performance of Verdi's La forza del destino with Leontyne Price, Placido Domingo, and Martti Talvela; and on A Passion for Opera we'll hear recordings by these three superb singers. Plus the March Mystery Voice Quiz.
Listen Saturday at 12 p.m.

Peter Fox Smith explores with us some of the melodic gems, comedic monologues, and masterly ensembles that are woven into the unbroken stream of music that is Verdi's final masterpiece, Falstaff.
Listen Saturday at 12 p.m.

In celebration of the January 27, 1756 birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and of the January 26, 1790 premiere of his opera Così fan tutte, and of the January 26, 1911 premiere of Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier - we'll hear excerpts from these two wonderful operas.

The landmark Broadway musical Show Boat - music by Jerome Kern, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II - opened in New York on December 27, 1927 and remains to this day one of the most popular musicals ever written.
Listen Saturday at 12 p.m.